RE: Architectural Help

2012-05-24 Thread Nigel Wood
A few questions: which is more or a problem: network outages, network capacity or query latency? When you say near real-time do you need transactional consistent view on all 49 servers or can some lag be tolerated? Can any one of the 49 local servers potentially update/delete the same rows or

Re: mysql guru??

2012-01-20 Thread nigel wood
means lots of writers and single analyzing process I'd definitely use stored procs and have the procs write to a job queue table for the analysis process. Nigel -- Nigel Wood Plusnet BSS Architect -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe

RE: RV: independent tables

2011-05-06 Thread Nigel Wood
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:00 +0100, Rocio Gomez Escribano wrote: Tables client an user are quite similar, but they don't have any intersection, I mean, if somebody is a client, he or she cant be a user. So, I have his or her driving license and I need to know what kind of person is. Im trying

Re: Fwd: DBCP error

2011-05-06 Thread Nigel Wood
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:12 +0100, Dhaval Jaiswal wrote: Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed I'd suggest you look at server side timeout and maximum connection settings in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-system-variables.html I'd suspect wait_timeout is the setting

Re: Update Table

2010-09-27 Thread Nigel Wood
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 11:25 +0100, Willy Mularto wrote: Hi, I work on MySQL 5 with PHP 5 and use Apache 2 as the webserver. I have a simple query that searches matched row id and update the field via HTTP GET query. On a low load it succeed update the row. But on high traffic sometimes it

Re: [PHP] SQL Syntax

2010-06-16 Thread Nigel Wood
[ I have 2 tables. Table A containing 2 fields. A user ID and a picture ID = A(uid,pid) and another table B, containing 3 fields. The picture ID, an attribute ID and a value for that attribute = B(pid,aid,value). Table B contains several rows for a single PID with various AIDs and values.

Re: [PHP] SQL Syntax

2010-06-16 Thread Nigel Wood
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:59 +0100, Nigel Wood wrote: I'd use: drop temporary table if exists AttSearchMatches; select pid as targetPid, count(*) as criteraMatched from B where userId=35 and ( (b.aid=1 and b.value 50) OR (b.aid=3 and b.value =4) ) group by pid having criteraMatched = 2; drop

Re: What if the user closes the browser while INSERT INTO MySQL? (PHP/MySQL)

2010-04-19 Thread Nigel Wood
Consider the following concept, ~/index.php #1. Fetch data from an external webpage using PHP Curl; #2. Preg_match/Prepare Data to INSERT from local MySQL; - this may take a few secs #3. While Loop { INSERT data (from #2) into local MySQL } - this may take only mili secs.

Re: Best approach for DB-based event logging?

2009-07-03 Thread nigel wood
Marcus Bointon wrote: For the most part this is write-only and is only ever read very rarely, but when I do, it will be to retrieve the details of a single user, and all I need is the whole history, not individual events. For your stated requirements the filesystem is probably most

Re: Best approach for DB-based event logging?

2009-07-03 Thread nigel wood
nigel wood wrote: Here's a rough table stucture. The indexes in events tables would be TargetId. But problably TargetId+EventDate probably eventId+event date as you found more uses/added paging. Well that didn't format very well :-( The tables structures are: User/Actor === TargetId

Re: Problem with Dynamic table names.

2009-06-29 Thread nigel wood
Marco Bartz wrote: I accidentally sent it before finishing... I am looking for a way to do the following with a single query: SELECT `ID`, `Name`, `Interface`, (SELECT count(*) FROM CONCAT('listings_', `ID`) WHERE `Status`='Active') as `activeListings` FROM `sites` I am querying the

Re: Totalling Counts done in Subqueries

2009-04-30 Thread nigel wood
Peter Brawley wrote: Is there a way to total counts done in subqueries? Select expression aliases can't be referenced at the same level. You have to create another outer level ... alternatively use variables: mysql select @first := 1 as value1, @second := 2 as value2, @fir...@second as

Re: servers full potential / FT searches locking tables

2007-08-27 Thread nigel wood
is probably table contention. Get a couple of 'show full processlist', 'show innodb status' query outputs during the lockups and run vmstat 1 -S M in another terminal. With the outputs from both you've something to work with. Nigel Wood -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http

Dazed confused. Less is more?

2007-07-31 Thread nigel wood
(as a result of replication failure) we directed all the traffic normally sent to the reporting server back to the master server adding a 1/3 to its load. Several areas of the websites got FASTER afterwards and I'm currenlty at a loss to explain why. Nigel Wood -- MySQL General Mailing List For list

Re: Deletes on big tables

2006-10-19 Thread nigel wood
Marvin Wright wrote: I have 3 tables where I keep cache records, the structures are something like TableA is a 1 to many on TableB which is a 1 to many on TableC To give you an idea of size, TableA has 8,686,769 rows, TableB has 5,6322,236 rows and TableC has 1,089,635,551 rows. My

Re: IP Address Function?

2006-08-26 Thread nigel wood
to the list before attempting to the functions in the online documentation so I'll simply confirm they exist and leave you to: Do Your Own Research by Reading The Fine Manual. Nigel Wood -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http

Re: Query Question

2006-08-14 Thread nigel wood
Michael DePhillips wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a clever way of returning; a requested value with one value less than that value, and one value greater than that value with one query. For example T1 contains ID 1234 1235 1236 1238 Assuming the id's are consecutive. You want

Re: Query Question

2006-08-14 Thread nigel wood
Michael DePhillips wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for the prompt reply, As I described it yes, you are correct, however, the id may not always be one(1) value away. So the number one needs, somehow, to be replaced with a way to get the next largest value and the previous less than value. Sorry

Re: Replicating queries to testing server

2006-05-24 Thread nigel wood
Dan Trainor wrote: Dan Trainor wrote: Hi - I would like to be able to replicate all queries from a live MySQL server, to a testing server at the office. The reason for doing this is to test load under [semi]real-world conditions with the new server. Hi - So I was thinking about this

Re: Newbie Locking Question

2006-04-26 Thread nigel wood
David T. Ashley wrote: Nigel wrote: mod_php will persist the MySQL connection holding open any lock or syncronisation token obtained through any of the three methods : begin/commit, lock/unlock tables or get_lock/release_lock. PHP does ensure that even in the event of timeouts or fatal

Re: Newbie Locking Question

2006-04-22 Thread nigel wood
David T. Ashley wrote: Hi, I'm doing a PHP application, and there are just a few instances where I need to do atomic operations on more than one table at a time and I can't express what I want to do as a single SQL statement. What I'm trying to guard against, naturally, is race conditions

Re: Newbie Locking Question

2006-04-22 Thread nigel wood
David T. Ashley wrote: Nigel wrote: If you can't or won't do this properly by using a transactional table and begin/commit at least look at using get_lock() based guard conditions which only lock a string leaving the database accessable. Whatever you do if you client is php install a

Re: Is there anyway to return an array?

2006-03-25 Thread nigel wood
David Godsey wrote: I know, I know, sounds like something that should be done in the presentation layer, howerver if possible, I would like to provide common data presentation to multiple presentation layers (written in different languages). So is there anyway to return an array in mysql?

Re: Merge tables.

2006-03-14 Thread nigel wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14/03/2006 12:09:10: As an example: There was a table called event. This table is now broken up like this: event _sensor_date. So for every sensor, and every day, there is now a new table. So if I have 20 sensors, every

Re: Query Complexity Limit Question [Newbie Question]

2006-02-07 Thread nigel wood
David T. Ashley wrote: Hi, I have several tables linked in various ways so that an inner join is possible. However, at the same time and in the same SQL query, I'd also like to query by some field values in one of the tables. Two quick questions: a)Will MySQL allow joins that involve more

Re: items quantity

2006-02-02 Thread nigel wood
Gyurasits Zoltán wrote: Hi ALL! Please help DATA: header_iditem_idquant 1110 1220 21100 22200 3120 3215 header is the moving type, and items is the items table. If header.type_ is 1 then incoming move, if 2 outgoing

Re: Force max query time, or max records returned

2005-12-30 Thread nigel wood
Scott Baker wrote: Is there a way to tell mysqld to stop running a query if it hasn't completed in over 60 seconds? Or how about stop running if the result is greater 100,000 rows or something? I have a bone head user who keeps querying two tables and NOT joining them, and then dragging the

Re: YAQQ (Yet Another Query Question)

2005-12-14 Thread nigel wood
Mark Phillips wrote: Flights +---+--+--+ | flight_id | data1_id | data2_id | +---+--+--+ | 1 |1 |1 | | 2 |1 |3 | | 3 |1 |1 | | 4 |2 |2 | | 5 |

Re: YAQQ (Yet Another Query Question)

2005-12-14 Thread nigel wood
Mark Phillips wrote: 2. Generally, what is the most efficient way to do this? Is is better to issue more queries that gather the calculated data or better to issue one query for the raw data and then do the calculations in Java? I am sure there are many factors that effect the answer to

Re: linux timestamp

2005-09-27 Thread Nigel Wood
Dotan Cohen wrote: Hi all, I have a field in a mysql database v4.0.18 that contains a linux timestamp. I have been googleing for a solution that would return to me all the entries where the timestamp falls on, say a wednesday, or between 2pm to 3pm. I am led to believe that it is possible, but

Re: I have a slow query that needs optimising..

2002-10-03 Thread nigel wood
On Thu, 03 Oct 2002, Andrew Braithwaite wrote: Please can you post an explain of this query? As a first guess try: alter table publicinfo add index location (x,y,class_code); Nigel - Before posting, please check:

Optimize table

2002-10-02 Thread nigel wood
in the first table will stay fairly constant so if I never run it will the table/index space kept tracking the deleted rows locations eventually be reused or will the table/index size grow constantly until one of the files hits the operating system limit? Many Thanks, Nigel Wood

Re: Limits of mySQL

2002-04-27 Thread nigel wood
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Sam Minnee wrote: I've been asked to put together a very large (well, it's large to me) database, and while mySQL is great for my current uses, I haven't had experience with stuff of this scale. The database will have about 88 tables, with up to 100 fields per table.

RE: MySQL security

2002-04-16 Thread nigel wood
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, David Ayliffe wrote: Are MySQL really going to give you details of their past security 'issues'? Think about it. Try going underground and looking on some exploit sites. DA Hi, I'm working on security breaches in MySQL. Can someone guide me in this. To be

Re: Index only sometimes used

2002-03-20 Thread nigel wood
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Steve Gardner wrote: Hi All Could someone explain to me why an index in a select I am doing is only sometimes used. mysql explain select * from mailstat where domain_id in(2); +--+--+---+--+-+--+-+--- -+ |

Re: query

2002-03-19 Thread nigel wood
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Horacio Lam wrote: The folowing is a query I tried to do, to view reports that were between two dates, the problem is that the reports that are made on the second date, are not being display, if anyone can help me, please reply. thanks select ticket.t_id,

Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread nigel wood
-to-resolution from a non-GPL db company? -- | Nigel Wood | PlusNet Technologies Ltd. + -- Internet Access Solutions @ http://www.plus.net - - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Whoops, 4GB limit

2001-06-29 Thread nigel wood
I have a table in a MySQL database on a Solaris system which contains log entries and have stupidly overflowed Solaris' 4GB file limit. The table is unusable. isamchk reports: error: 'log.ISD' is not a ISAM-table I have tried making a truncated copy of the file and isamchk'ing the

Re: Provider claims 'it's normal that mysql crashes', is that true?

2001-04-04 Thread nigel wood
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Gunnar von Boehn wrote: Hello My provider 11-Puretec (www.puretec.de) hosting more than 1.000.000 domains runs about 14 Databaseserver with MySQL 3.22.32-log on Linux dual Penti-III 500Mhz machines. In the last 6 month the average uptime of the mysql-servers was

Re: Reg. Synchronization between MySQL DBs

2001-03-28 Thread nigel wood
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Aigars Grins wrote: Hi, The short version: Does anyone know an automated way of keeping two MySQL db's (located on different machines) in sync? A small window of non-sync could be acceptable. The long version: snip The important question is how much availability